Adriaan was die seun van Pieter Nel en Johanna Catharina Bekker.
Adriaan
Baptised: 1763, den 18 December
Father: Pieter Willemsz Nel
Mother: Anna Catharina Bekker
Witnesses: Pieter Willemsz Nel, en Sara Nel
6 Mar 1785
1785, den 6 Maart
Adriaan Nel Pieter Willemz:
van Cabo de Goede hoop, jongman
burger aan Swellendam
Met
Maria Aletta Jansze
van Cabo voornt:, jonge dogter
Source: Nederduits Gereformeerde Gemeente (NGK), Tulbagh, Western
Cape. marriage register, 1744-1839, page 41, entry no 8. Repository: NG
Kerkargief, Noordwal-Wes, Stellenbosch, G4 9/1. Transcribed by Trysie Joubert,
Marelize Keyter, Marie Greyvenstein and Annatje Erasmus as part of the eGGSA
Project, from VC 664, Cape Archives Repository